Trichopteryx carpinata

Trichopteryx carpinata, known as the early tooth-striped, is a moth of the family Geometridae, first described by Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen in 1794. It is found across most of Europe, except Iceland, Greece, Sicily, Sardinia and Croatia, and east through the Palearctic to the Russian Far East, Siberia and the Ile District of Kazakhstan. The wingspan is 30 to 34 millimetres. The ground colour is whitish grey, with a faint green tinge in freshly emerged moths, and the markings are brownish grey and often weakly expressed. The male has narrower wings than the female, and a darker form called fasciata has two much darker central bands. The larva is naked and green with narrow white lengthwise stripes. Adults fly from April to May in one generation a year, and the larvae feed on trees including honeysuckle (Lonicera), willow (Salix) and birch (Betula).